UGH. I'm just going to say 'fuck it' bc i said i was too late to respond but then i realized that i'd never responded at all to this one and i loved it so much when u wrote it except i didn't have time and that was just fucking wrong bc i have thoughts, so here i am, over a month later bc i suck.....sorry.
I KNOWWWWWW. I'm sorry to Draco. I love him......but i had to break him mwahaaha.
Also I'm so glad you like him. And I knowww hahah, I tried to give him a life. It felt unreasonably cruel to banish him to the states and then make him have no friends or relationships there either? Like I wasn't sure if a person who has absolutely zero deeper relationships in their life is capable of being there for someone else (which may or may not be something draco should have to do in the future......😏😈). so...it was between having no friends in England or no friends in the US.......and I chose there lol. Also, yes, we're living in this magical world where everyone is forced to sit down and have fucking therapy bc it's good for you (also, i think it's just going to be draco. only the MACUSA is going to live in such a magical place lolol, the rest of them need their slightly unresolved trauma to make them angsty). Also, I'm so glad you approve. I was really nervous about his speech because I didn't know where to draw the line. But I felt like he would NEVER go into that situation after he left it without at least TRYING to apologize (ugh, if you can't tell why that's so attractive, it's because men who can properly express their emotions or get therapy are indeed fitter by nature). BUT BUT BUT, he couldn't like be completely honest bc obviously. so instead, I've decided to make Hermione's trauma a lot darker and Draco's (misplaced) guilt a lot deeper so he doesn't even want to reference his crimes. which then yields such a blatantly vague yet sincere apology that he can hope is expressing everything he regrets from the letter and Hermione can think he's sorry for being a schoolyard bully. Idk, I tried. we'll see if it worked.
""Are there bridges that can span an entire ocean?" It's heartbreaking knowing he has always lived with her at the forefront of his mind and she doesn't remember him (and he doesn't know that)!" yeah, i'm not going to lie, i love a well spoken and totally dramatic and emotional draco. and i feel like there's a lot of potential if he's been pining this entire time, depressed that he would never see her again?
Honestly, i kind of love when Draco's an adult lol or like so done with the war that he hate's the Manor as much as anyone? Or like he hate's it bc of what happened there and even though he knows like blah blah blah, he never wants to make someone experience it again? idkkk.
Also, my favourite headcanon is that Draco was raised a proper noble and was forced to speak a dozen languages. idk if it comes off as awkward in the chapter, but I thought it was a rlly funny vision in my head for him to just like talk in other languages when he's stressed/bored and then for it to have bothered hermione when they were younger bc she couldn't. 😎
The name. honestly, at first they were just casual machinations. but I'm thoroughly enjoying the name build up given the response it's had. I feel like it's a proper 'fuck you' and rlly ironic but also i want you to be surprised so no more comments from me. 🤐
You'll have to find out on the bookshelves. 🤭
THANK YOU. OMG, Thank you. I'm really glad you think i'm doing her justice 🥰. And UGH. You get it. I'm a little bit curious what you think of her chapter 5 version self. She's really the product of woman trying to make her way (especially, i hope, at that time in the 2000s and the government). Like obviously no one should ever begrudge a person for needing to tend to their family. especially when their child has taken ill. but still she feels like it's her fault and she's failing bc of it (which is ironic given that she stayed up until dawn working to fix someone else's failure just the night before). And her apology to draco, i feel like their relationship is just going to get more confusing for him and like entertaining but endearing for her. bc i hope (i say this like i'm not writing the actual story, but somehow i feel like im just sharing the story of ppl and writing it down [i swear im not crazy, but it's like a tv show in my head and i'm making it into writing?]) i hope that she'll like interpret his caution (and perhaps silent pining) as kindness that she desperately needs? and perhaps that will be his 'in'? but he doesn't know or even understand that? idk, i can't decide lolol, there's so much potential and i don't want to mess it up 🫣
I don't want to make promises, but for confrontational Draco......I'm planning to make it where he wasn't given the job over harry for no reason. (if u know what i'm saying 😏💪). like draco's reputation is for a reason (even if it totally crumbles in Hermione's presence)? idk if that's what u mean, but like.....he will show up eventually :)? 🤔
THEO AND BLAISE. MWAHAHAHAAH. 😈 I have plans....... I can definitely promise you an HEA. We'll see if we can manage a double date 😏😏😏 More to come of those two undoubtedly. lolol
Time is a construct anyways!! hahahah I am here for it, even if we have to wait!
" it's because men who can properly express their emotions or get therapy are indeed fitter by nature" LITERALLYYYYY hence why I can't do toxic Draco, I already deal with toxic men in irl don't need it in here lol
"Idk, I tried. we'll see if it worked." -- I think it did. I don't love the miscommunication trope when it's overused, but I don't think that's the case here. He being a bit vague because the sense of guilt and renewed sense of rejection from seeing her again makes sense. No matter how much he has worked on himself, I could not see him willingly just exposing everything he has been holding for 5 years the minute he sees her, especially because he knows, for all intents and purposes, she has willingly moved on and is happy. And she thinking his apology is due to his bullying is just cute to me. In my book, she deserves that apology every time lol so she thinking this here is just healing to me <3
"[...] depressed that he would never see her again?" I WANT THAT, I NEED THAT. Will it hurt my weak heart? yessssss. But I'm here for it!
Honeslty, you can give us any reason he hates the manor and I'M SAT; I always see it as a way of him distancing himself from how he grew up.
I think it was hilarious the way he berates himself in multiple languages! and it's realistic in canon for sureee!!! Malfoy/Black's only heir? come on, we know he is royalty lol
"i hope that she'll like interpret his caution (and perhaps silent pining) as kindness that she desperately needs? and perhaps that will be his 'in'? but he doesn't know or even understand that?" YYYYYEEESSSSSSSSS. a friend, a listening ear. I'm not one for infidelity, even emotional infidelity, UNLESS is them hahahhaha + it would destroy Harry, and... he deserves it lol BUTTTT go with your gut! We are here enjoying the ride! I am sure we will love any 'in' you decide on!
"like draco's reputation is for a reason (even if it totally crumbles in Hermione's presence)" GIDDYYYYYYYYYY and ready for it -- I need both of them to excel and be unquestionable in their jobs because their personal lives are a MESS :')
"I can definitely promise you an HEA." I will keep this in mind anytime you break my heart with your writing as we go along lol
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